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N.C. Supreme Court keeps lottery law in placeNews Story
Lottery barely avoids being deemed illegal The North Carolina Education Lottery can still operate after the state Supreme Court deadlocked Friday over whether the votes creating the games were lawful. Three of the seven justices agreed Friday the lottery law was unconstitutional and three others upheld the law. A seventh justice, Mark Martin, had recused himself from oral arguments in the case in September and did not vote. The 3-3 decision means a March 2008 state Court of Appeals ruli
Mar 23, 2009, 2:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Alabama Supreme Court finds that casinos are operating illegallyNews Story
State will shut down casinos in question By Kate Northrop The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled that several casinos in the state are to be shut down after they were found to be in violation of Alabama's gambling laws. Court case State v. Epic Tech, LLC came to a close with the Alabama Supreme Court's decision that casinos are operating illegally in the state. The Alabama Supreme Court found itself in agreement with the Attorney General's assertion that the Southern Star, Whi
Oct 4, 2022, 5:59 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lawsuit over $315 million lottery jackpot goes to trialReply
Quote: Originally posted by csfb on June 8, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by konane on June 8, 2006 The lawyers are slugging it out for the money earned through their fees, the heck with whether winners get a penny. Have heard a suggestion that if someone sues someone else and loses, loser in lawsuits pays all court costs and all attorney fees including those of the defendant .... which would likely eliminate a lot of let's file and see if they pay us to go away stuff clogging the court
Jun 8, 2006, 2:59 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Judge rules thief keeps lottery jackpotNews Story
The Massachusetts bank robber accused of violating his probation by scratching and winning a $1 million lottery ticket will keep his windfall and will not face jail time as a result of a court hearing this morning in Barnstable. Appearing in Barnstable Superior Court, Timothy Elliott, 55, was found in violation of his probation for buying the $800 Million Spectacular scratch ticket at the Hyannis Stop Shop on Independence Drive on Nov. 23. He was today ordered to pay $65 a month to mo
Jan 18, 2008, 7:24 pm - Todd - Lottery News

WHO is going to show you how to win w/ positive R.O.I. Long termReply
'au contrair, mon ami' we know gaming practices have improved because of litigation but they haven't gone away. This is a public forum, that in it's scope concerning confidentiality has time/space limitations, also we are open to lottery and casino visitors.... therefore, unfortunately, not so free for unrestricted revelations. That being said, I cannot delve or be baited into a debate with anyone who isn't known to me personally. So with one thing taken with another, in brief, if one
Feb 8, 2019, 8:02 pm - eddessaknight - Lottery Discussion Forum

Court: elderly sisters' gambling pact forces lottery jackpot splitNews Story
The Connecticut Appeals Court has ruled a 1995 pact struck by two widowed sisters to split each other's future gambling winnings is still binding despite the fact they no longer speak to one another. The decision paves the way for a public family feud pitting Theresa Sokaitis, 81, against Rose Bakaysa, 85, over a $500,000 Powerball jackpot Bakaysa hit on June 18, 2005, but doesn't want to share with her estranged sibling. Sokaitis is suing Bakaysa for breach of contract. Bakaysa's attorney
Feb 5, 2008, 12:36 am - Todd - Lottery News

online gambling law
Legal Landscape of Online Gaming Has Not Changed Misleading news stories abound both online and in print regarding the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The completely incorrect interpretation states that the new bill essentially outlaws most forms of Internet gambling. The new bill absolutely does no such thing. I have been analyzing legal issues for 25 years. I have gone to court thousands of times interpreting statutes and I have taught new lawyers the correct m
Oct 7, 2006, 12:21 pm - tungsten chef - Lottery Discussion Forum

Iowa Supreme Court hears lottery rigging caseNews Story
The Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether purely circumstantial evidence was enough to convict a former lottery employee of rigging Iowa's Hot Lotto game to win a $16.5 million jackpot. Eddie Tipton was convicted of tampering with Iowa's Hot Lotto game and attempting to cash a ticket in early 2015, but an appeals court reversed his conviction on the charge of attempting to redeem the lottery ticket, finding it was barred by the three-year statute of limitations. The Iowa Sup
Feb 14, 2017, 4:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa court reverses part of Tipton's lottery fraud convictionNews Story
An Iowa appeals court on Wednesday upheld a former lottery employee's conviction for rigging the computer system to generate the winning ticket in a $16 million jackpot, but reversed a conviction for attempting to cash in on the ticket. The conviction stems from Eddie Tipton's work for the Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association, or MSLA, which produces computers that generate random numbers for lotteries in multiple states. As an employee of the association, Tipton was barred from playing
Jul 28, 2016, 8:23 am - Todd - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket pits Pa. brothers against each otherNews Story
Sometimes, a stack of lottery cash is thicker than blood. And two Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, brothers learned that the hard way. A winning lottery ticket has pitted Ira Sharp, and his half-brother, Charles Thomas Meehan, against each other in Cumberland County Court, fracturing a close familial kinship that may never exist again. Drinking luck The saga began at Johnny Joe's Sports Bar Grill in Hampden Township in late May, when Sharp and Meehan were knocking back a few drinks, and
Jun 26, 2013, 11:46 am - Todd - Lottery News